rousseau
French, noun/ʁu.so/
rousseau is spelled R-O-U-S-S-E-A-U (8 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written French, the 8,212th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rousseau is a French masculine noun meaning “redhead” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui a les cheveux et le poil roux”.
What does rousseau mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculineredhead
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui a les cheveux et le poil roux. 2. Daurade rose (poisson). 3. Rotengle (poisson). 4. Un des noms locaux du canard chipeau.
adjective: 1. De couleur rousse. 2. Qui a les cheveux ou le poil roux.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of rousseau
- rousseaux plural
- rousseaute feminine
- rousseautes plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rousseau?
- /ʁu.so/
- \ʁu.so\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is rousseau in French?
rousseau appears 7.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).